On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 7:13 PM Tyler Retzlaff <roret...@linux.microsoft.com> wrote: > > MSVC is the only compiler that can produce usable shared libraries for > DPDK on Windows because of the use of exported TLS variables. > > Disable building of shared libraries with LLVM and MinGW so that > remaining __declspec macros needed for the functional libraries built by > MSVC can be used without triggering errors in LLVM and MinGW builds. > > For Windows only install the > default_library type to avoid confusion. > Windows builds cannot build both shared and static in a single pass so > install only the functional variant > > MSVC does not guarantee any kind of compatibility for static libraries so > they should not be packaged and instead they should be rebuilt along with > the application using the same version of the compiler & linker. Because > of this we have chosen to build only one library type at a time instead of > compiling twice to produce both types in a single pass. > > thanks Bruce for all the discussion/feedback! > > Tyler Retzlaff (2): > build: build only one library type on Windows > buildtools: when building static library use static deps > > buildtools/chkincs/meson.build | 5 ++-- > config/meson.build | 24 +++++++++++++++ > drivers/meson.build | 59 ++++++++++++++++--------------------- > lib/meson.build | 67 > ++++++++++++++++-------------------------- > 4 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)
Series applied, thanks. -- David Marchand
